The protagonists sound like the leads in a Hollywood thriller. There’s the world’s most-wanted Nazi war criminal, a bloodthirsty concentration-camp doctor whose whereabouts have been unknown since he vanished 46 years ago. And there’s the Brooklyn-bred Jew who has dedicated his life to the global quest for World war II-era mass murderers. The Nazi-hunter, now [...]

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DEBKAfile’s military sources report that Israel has placed its military and air forces on its northern borders on high alert after Iran and Syria ignored Jerusalem’s warning, relayed to Washington, that the continued presence of Iranian, Syrian and Hizballah officers on the strategic Lebanese Sannine peak may spark a military clash.
Monday, July 14, two days [...]

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Since February, abnormal seismic activity has been noted in southern Lebanon, which had suffered some 500 minor earthquakes in a three-month period, health ministry director-general Avi Yisraeli said in the letter.
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Some seismological experts point out quakes historically have rocked the region every eight decades, and the last one was just about 81 years ago. About [...]

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Israel wants to put more international pressure on Iran over its disputed nuclear programme, suggesting an US-imposed naval blockade and tougher sanctions, local media reported on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert raised the idea of a naval blockade in talks with the Democratic speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, during her visit to [...]

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WHEN the prime minister of Israel, Ehud Olmert, arrived at a Jerusalem ballroom in February to address the grandees of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations (a redundancy, since there are no minor American Jewish organizations), he was pugnacious, as is customary, but he was also surprisingly defensive, and not because of [...]

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The U.S. estimates Israel has about 200 nuclear weapons made up of five different classes of weapons. Israel assembled its first two bombs on the night of Nov. 2, 1966. In the Six-Day War, it had two weapons on alert; by the Yom Kippur war in 1973, 20 were on alert; by the Gulf War, [...]

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But officials portray Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Ehud Barak as having little interest in a deal with Hamas. They acknowledge that a suspension of attacks by both sides might make the ongoing peace talks easier — and that the outbreak of an all-out conflict would almost certainly kill the Annapolis process. Yet, [...]

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JERUSALEM — The number of anti-Semitism acts rose sharply across the world in 2006, with violent incidents in Britain reaching a 20-year peak, said a study published Monday.
“A sharp escalation in physical, verbal, and visual manifestations of anti-Semitism was recorded in 2006,” said the study conducted by the Stephen Roth Institute for the [...]

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JERUSALEM, March 31 — Hamas, the dominant faction in the Palestinian government, is building its military capacity in the Gaza Strip, constructing tunnels and underground bunkers and smuggling in ground-to-air missiles and military-grade explosives, senior Israeli officials say.
The officials, including a top military commander who spoke in an interview on Friday, said that Hamas had [...]

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